Chapter 25 Naruto, do you want a brother? (End) (10,000 words)
Half an hour later.
The moment Naruto plucked up the courage and stepped into the grocery store, he saw the proprietress who was chatting and laughing with the customers at the shelf a second ago. Suddenly she suddenly turned her head to look at him as if she smelled something strange.
Location.
Immediately afterwards, those small eyes squeezed out by fat suddenly became sharper than the most powerful ninja he had ever seen, walking towards him like a rhinoceros whose territory had been violated.
Naruto immediately forgot everything Giyuu told him.
He hurriedly exited the store, but his left heel tripped on the threshold, and he suddenly fell backwards, but his shoulders were firmly supported by Yiyong who was now behind him.
【I will support you.】
What Yiyong said before was suddenly confirmed in a literal sense.
Even in the cold winter, Naruto's heart suddenly became warm.
But before he could thank him, the proprietress had already walked out with a long-handled brush on her hips, completely blocking the store door behind her. She was more intimidating than the two chuunin guarding the entrance at Konoha's west gate.
"I've told you before, you kid, you are absolutely not allowed to enter the store."
As if she was afraid of attracting the attention of the customers, the proprietress pointed the handle of the brush at Naruto and whispered through gritted teeth: "If people inside see you, how can I do business in the future?!"
This is an area where civilians and low-level ninjas gather. Many of them lost their loved ones in the events of that year. They generally have hatred towards Naruto, who is rumored to be the "reincarnation of the demon fox". But the strange thing is that Naruto
Live not far away.
Then, the landlady saw Giyu behind Naruto.
Because Naruto was alone all the time, she never thought about other possibilities, and immediately added: "Look, you are blocking other customers! Get out of my way!"
Then, she turned her head to look at Yiyong and laughed like a rice ball, "Little brother, what are you here to buy? Don't be afraid, he will leave soon."
This instant change in expression left Naruto, who was suddenly pushed aside, at a loss as to what to do.
"We are in this together."
Giyuu grabbed Naruto's arm and pulled him to his side. His tone was cold and unchallenged, "He is my friend. He is here and he is not going anywhere."
Suddenly, the thin layer of snow in front of the grocery store's porch was slowly pushed away by an invisible wave of wind.
Naruto and Giyuu stood side by side in the center of a small open space, as if they were alone in the world.
【friend……】
Naruto was stunned for a moment, his eyes lingering on Yiyong's resolute side.
[This is the first time Yiyong has said this personally...]
That day a year ago, when Grandpa Hokage asked Naruto "This is your new friend" as soon as he walked in, he was still a little nervous, thinking that it would make Giyuu unhappy.
But now I heard Yiyong admit it on the spot, in front of the villagers who had been targeting him...
Just the next second, the joy that just surged out was immediately replaced by deep worry.
[If because of me, they treat Giyuu the same way they treat me...]
He could no longer imagine it.
Before setting off, he only thought about what might happen to him, but never considered what consequences it might have for Yiyong!
Sure enough, after hearing what Yiyong said, the landlady's face showed a hint of joy and immediately entered horror movie mode.
"Little brother, do you know who this kid is?"
She looked around the street and found that several passers-by and some neighbors were looking at her with gloomy expressions. She quickly said loudly like a performer: "This is a child who is born evil and has no one to discipline him. He spends all day on the street.
There is nothing to do. You'd better stay away from him. If your mother were here, she would do the same..."
"I'm not here to hear this, and my mother won't say such boring things."
Yiyong interrupted her and took out the detergent from the large plastic bag containing expired milk, "We are here to return it."
When she heard the word "return", the landlady's eyebrows suddenly rose.
This is the most annoying word for small shop owners besides rent and inspection.
"ha?"
She sighed in disbelief, and then remembered that this thing was what she sold to Naruto that morning, and her narrow eyes immediately stared at it.
"Why, kid, could it be that no one at home taught you how to use it, so you just returned it?
"It is absolutely impossible to return something like detergent once it has been opened. Besides, do I dare to take back something you have touched and put it on the shelf? Otherwise, you will be plagued with bad luck. Then this
There is no need to keep the store open.
"I tell you the truth, if it weren't for the village's order, I wouldn't even sell you a hair on the brush!"
She didn't care how much these heartbreaking words hurt Naruto, she kept saying them like a barrage of words.
In fact, this was not only what she wanted to say, but also what she wanted to say for the onlookers to hear, otherwise she would probably be excluded as an alien.
Treating Naruto badly was not just a personal wish, but a consensus that went without saying. As long as they did this, they would all still be victims of the disaster.
"Go away quickly and disappear from here, or I will call the Uchiha Guards!"
When she bared her teeth, her bright red gums were revealed, and her white teeth were sharper than knives under the reflection of the snow light.
"Those people can't talk sense at all. If an undisciplined child like you is caught, you will never get out again!"
More and more people were passing by. Under the pressure of the gaze, the boss lady just wanted to get rid of these two literal "lost stars" as quickly as possible, but she inadvertently demonstrated a textbook level - how to insult two people in front of you at the same time.
personal.
【Uchiha...】
Naruto opened his eyes wide and looked at Giyuu, who had a hint of gloom on his forehead.
[Isn’t that Yiyong’s last name? 】
The last words of the landlady diluted the impact of the words "no one to discipline" on Naruto.
"There is no Uchiha Guard, there is only Konoha Guard."
Yiyong corrected the other person word by word. This was what he had heard his father warn his tribe several times.
"Besides, there is a good reason for us to return the goods. Naruto."
He called out, and Naruto responded immediately.
[When you truly face what you are afraid of and no longer want to escape, you will want to defeat it.]
At this moment, Giyuu's words suddenly replaced the voice of Grandpa Hokage echoing in his head.
Naruto plucked up the courage, and under the gaze of more and more people around him, he took out his bandaged hand from his sleeve. The neat one on the right was bandaged by Giyuu for him; the one on the left looked a little bloated.
The bandage was wrapped by Naruto himself. Because it was a little rough, it would inevitably put pressure on the wound, so during the process of wrapping it, blood flowed out and stained the bandage red.
Suddenly there was an exclamation from the approaching crowd.
It was a woman with a child. She couldn't help but cover her mouth with her hands, with a trace of unbearability in her eyes.
It wasn't until others looked at her with suspicion that she returned to her original state. She wanted to leave but didn't dare, because if she showed sympathy for Naruto, she would probably be gossiped about by those whose family members died in the disaster five years ago.
.
These people did not understand the complex vocabulary of tailed beasts and jinchūriki at all, so they could only use folk superstitions, guided by rumors from interested people, to regard Naruto as the reincarnation of the so-called demon fox and an outlet for hatred and anger.
And those who had nothing to lose in the Nine-Tails Rebellion joined in just to appear "social". At first they were just pretending, but later it seemed as if they also had some deep hatred for the child.
In the end, there were very few ordinary people who were willing to treat Naruto with a normal heart. Currently, there were only the owner of the ramen shop in the Jonin neighborhood and the owner of the adult bookstore around the corner who always welcomed everyone.
"What does it mean?!"
The grocery store proprietress spread her legs and pinched her waist, "I didn't put things away properly and smashed them with my hands. Are you going to sell them at my place?"
Yiyong carefully observed the other person's expression.
As a member of the Demon Slayer team, you will inevitably have to deal with stubborn people whose family members have turned into ghosts.
When a person is lying or hiding something, Jiyong can have some intuition even if he can't tell from his expression.
But his intuition told him that the boss lady seemed really angry, and she deduced that the reason why Naruto's hands were bandaged was not due to liquid corrosion, but something falling from a height and hitting his hand?
【Does she not know? 】
"I……"
Naruto felt the pressure from all around. When he spoke for the first time, his voice became hoarse and sharp due to excessive tension.
Until Yiyong touched his shoulder.
Naruto blinked, coughed and cleared his throat, and then explained: "After I got home, I washed the mop with a bottle of water, and then my hand started to hurt. As soon as I rinsed it with water, the skin on it started to fall off.
Already..."
"This is impossible!"
The fat woman interrupted Naruto angrily.
Because now it’s not just a problem with this kid blocking the door and returning goods, but also a problem with the quality of her products. If people around her take it seriously, her reputation will really be ruined.
"I have been selling this thing for more than ten years, and the situation you mentioned has never happened once!"
Her eyes trembled back and forth like ping pong balls on a playing field, her eyes switching back and forth between the cold and ruthless little faces and the aggrieved and angry ones.
She wasn't just talking, she really felt that her products would never have such problems.
So the problem must lie with Naruto.
"You must be lying and want to come here to frame us!"
She raised her head, looked at the concerned neighbors around her and said loudly: "As you all know, this kid is born to be an evil freak. He must have seen a customer using flies to blackmail the boss when he was eating in a restaurant.
, I just learned it one by one."
"Yes, that's definitely the case. This kid has no one to discipline him and wanders around the streets every day. It's too easy to learn bad things."
In the crowd, the fat woman's neighbors were the first to make peace.
Immediately afterwards, there was an overwhelming exchange of words.
"What's wrong with learning? He is born bad."
"It's so disgusting to look like that!"
"Besides, isn't it normal for him to be injured? Maybe it's God's retribution!"
"Why the village raised him up, I really can't figure it out!"
"As a result, I actually raised a white-eyed wolf!"
Naruto had rehearsed the horrible nightmare countless times in his mind, but it still appeared.
When those words penetrated his heart one after another, they were a bit sharper than a knife.
Moreover, the knife not only penetrated his body, but also twisted and twisted, twisting Naruto's internal organs to pieces.
His face was as pale as death, and his bandaged fingers were shaking continuously like a telegraph. The injustices he had endured for more than three years were superimposed on the current scene, like a dark cloud condensing above his head, and suddenly changed.
It formed layers of thick, heavy black silk, almost suffocating him to death on the spot.
Until a different voice suddenly came from the crowd.
"I think the kid next to him is gloomy, and he's not a good guy either!"
"If you hang out with this kind of monster, you're probably an orphan without a father or a mother."
(Yiyong doesn’t have the clan emblem on his clothes today.)
"You look at that look and don't move. You must be an idiot to play with him..."
What Naruto was most worried about - that Giyuu would be implicated by him - finally happened.
Suddenly, he felt as if a ball of fire rose from his abdomen, rushing toward his stiff limbs like a galloping army, dispelling countless clouds caused by past experiences on the spot.
His eye sockets and beard were suddenly dyed with a faint orange-red color, and his steaming mouth opened to shout out without passing through the brain tissue.
"You are not allowed to—"
【Slandering volunteers!!!】
The reason why he didn't finish speaking was because a pair of warm hands blocked his ears.
The plain voice covered all other curses and curses, and simply penetrated through his occiput and directly into his manic heart.
The owner of those hands is Yiyong.
He is repeating what Master Lintaki did to him.
That was the hint Master Lintaki gave him when he fell into great anger after Qio Usagi died in the Fuji Raid test.
"Don't be angry, Naruto, imagine the water..."
"Imagine calm water with no ripples..."
"No matter what someone says, it will be like a stone dropped into the water, sinking into it in a moment without a trace..."
"No one can hurt you with words, and no one can hurt me..."
On the roof not far away, Kakashi, who was about to perform the teleportation technique, interrupted his action.
He took off his mask and wiped the cold sweat from his head.
In the vision of the Three Magatama Sharingan, the undetectable red light on Naruto gradually disappeared.
[He didn’t face Naruto directly, and it couldn’t be the Sharingan...]
He thought, [What did Uchiha Giyuu say that could actually make Naruto, a Jinchuriki, stabilize his emotions instantly?]
the most important is……
"Sandaime-sama, what should I do next?"
This was the first time in his history that he hoped that the third generation could open up the crystal ball and take a look here.
…
Down below, because the crowd surrounded the two people for a long time and even cursed them more and more fiercely, they finally attracted the attention of the security team.
The person who came to find out what happened here was none other than Uchiha Enhuo, who had recently failed the Jonin test again, committed the crime of underage drinking, and was assigned to patrol.
"Konoha Guards!"
He shouted outside the crowd, "Everyone, get out of my way!"
Ask the common people of Konoha what they hate.
Answer: Naruto.
Ask the common people of Konoha what they fear and hate.
Answer: Uchiha (Konoha) Guards.
Because these people are indifferent to food and salt, and do not eat hard or soft things, everyone thinks they are inferior to them. Therefore, once the villagers are caught, no matter how big or small they are, they will all be taken away for investigation, and then interrogated with blood-red eyes. It left a strong psychological shadow on people.
Sure enough, when they heard the word "guard team", the people who had just been noisy and chaotic immediately fell silent and dispersed to both sides little by little, revealing the righteous and brave Naruto inside.
[Well, it’s this guy...]
Seeing Giyuu, Uchiha Yanhuo's eyes shrank, and he felt that the wound hurt when Uchiha Itachi cut him off midway last time and hit him with a shuriken.
But because his memory has been covered by Shisui's pupil power, he only remembers that Giyuu can easily be placed as a genin, but the fact that Giyuu can open the Sharingan has been forgotten.
It became a still water.
Although he doesn't like this boy (brother) very much, the Uchiha clan is famous for its unity.
Seeing his descendants surrounded by a bunch of adults on the street, Uchiha En's face suddenly darkened.
As for Naruto, he had only met him before. He had not yet become a Jonin and he was not qualified to know Naruto's life experience. He just regarded it as a strange person making strange friends, so he didn't find it strange at all.
"what happened?"
He crossed his arms and walked to the middle with a haughty expression.
Influenced by strength and family supremacy, Uchiha looks down on the weak, which is a traditional skill of young tribesmen.
"You came just in time."
The fat woman forced a stiff smile and said, "These two children falsely accused my store of selling them defective products..."
"ha?"
Uchiha Yanhuo's mouth opened in a mocking arc.
Who in the entire Uchiha doesn't know that the patriarch's family has a son who can't lie at all.
Every time a clan member asked him, "Is the clan leader at home?", he would answer truthfully.
"Uchiha Giyuu, is that so?"
He turned his head and nodded to Yiyong as a greeting.
"Do you know each other? He is also Yu Zhi..."
The landlady screamed in surprise, but she immediately stopped talking when she saw Uchiha's fiery expression.
"I didn't ask you, so don't talk."
The landlady dared not speak out in anger, so she could only retreat to the side angrily.
Seeing Uchiha Yanhuo choking on one word, this terrifying woman didn't dare to say a word, Naruto's eyes showed a hint of admiration.
[Although he is a bit domineering, he is so handsome...]
"There is indeed something wrong with that thing."
Yiyong answered Uchiha Yanhuo's question, "Naruto is the person involved, you can ask him directly."
Uchiha Yanhuo's eyes moved to Naruto's face.
Seeing that there was finally an adult willing to listen to him seriously, Naruto broke free from the previous discomfort and told everyone what he had experienced in the morning.
"He lied!"
The proprietress couldn't help it anymore and shouted loudly, "Our store has been open for more than ten years, and nothing like this has ever happened before! Besides, the detergent will not expire or deteriorate, so how could he burn his hands!"
"
Then, she looked for support from her surroundings, "You are all my neighbors and you should know that it is impossible for me to do something like this to damage my own brand."
"That is to say, who knows if that kid's hands were burned?"
"Maybe I wasn't hurt at all, I'm just pretending to be pitiful..."
There was another buzz in the crowd.
Uchiha Yanhuo only felt that it was noisy and a little dizzy.
"Naruto's wounds were bandaged by me myself."
Yiyong said in a deep voice, "The entire epidermal layer has fallen off."
Uchiha Yanhuo took a breath of air.
The injury was not serious, but I couldn't bear the feeling of the image rushing to my face, and then came the severe pain I imagined.
"You came with him, who knows whether what you said is true or false?"
There were doubts among the crowd.
"We also have ninjas here. You can tell at a glance whether he was injured or not."
"Tell him to take off the bandage!"
"Yes, it will be clear after you take a look!"
"These two brats are definitely lying."
Seeing the crowd becoming angry again, Uchiha Yanhuo also hesitated.
Uchiha values his reputation the most. If the matter is such a big deal, it will not be heard if it is not able to convince the public.
He looked at Yiyong: "How about it? Are you willing?"
He has full confidence in Zhiyong, who has always had a "good reputation". After the bandage is removed, these people should be able to shut their mouths.
"Naruto?"
When Giyuu turned to Naruto, he found that Naruto's expression was very strange. It was green and white. Even with his poor ability to distinguish emotions, he could tell that the latter was very unstable now.
It wasn't the sudden, heart-stopping anger like just now, but fear.
The kind of fear one feels when seeing a ghost.
"What’s wrong with you?"
Although they had only been together for a few hours, Giyuu could tell from Naruto's behavior of hiding his injuries even if he had to wear gloves, that he was very strong-willed and would not be afraid of being like this just because he had to take off the bandage.
"my hand……"
Naruto folded his bandaged hands as if to hide something, "It's itchy."
Naruto, who has had the experience of being injured, knows exactly what this means!
Usually it would be like a scratch on his leg or something, and it would only take a few minutes at most to recover, and he would also be itchy at that time.
But the wound that had not healed when the medicine was applied just now started to heal. He simply couldn't imagine what everyone would say after he took off the bandage and saw his palm that may have been intact.
Come……
By then, it became clear that he was not just "lying".
Volunteers can also...
Thinking of this, Naruto felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave and his face was ashen. He didn't understand why it was at this time, when he could get something for himself, when Yiyong wanted to help him regardless of other people's eyes.
But his body is going against him!
"Yes, I'm sorry..."
He didn't dare to look into Yiyong's eyes because he felt like a traitor.
Giyu said nothing, his eyes became deeper than usual, and he easily caught the red chakra flowing out wantonly. It was that thing, that thing that seemed to be trapped in Naruto's body, that suddenly decided to help Naruto
Recover injuries.
Completely opposite to the trickle before.
"Hey, what are you waiting for?"
The people around him urged angrily, "You're not saying you're burned, just let us take a look."
"Are you feeling guilty?"
"Let's just say this kid must be lying!"
This time, Naruto didn't shed tears.
He said to Yiyong like a corpse, "I'm sorry, Yiyong, let's go..."
At least, it won't be any more ugly than after being "revealed".
He had already made up his mind. When he returned home, he would ask Grandpa Hokage to send him to a place where Giyuu could not find him. He had no shame anymore——
But the next second, Yiyong loudly said to the people around him: "I can't let Naruto take off the gauze."
With force of his thumb, he suddenly pried open the cap of the bottle of detergent, "But I can also prove that there is something wrong with this thing."
After speaking, he poured the brown liquid inside onto his left hand without waiting for anyone to react.
"laugh--"
A harsh sound spread along with the stench, and the faces of the onlookers changed drastically. They all took a step back, covering their mouths and noses in unison, while the timid ones turned back.
Only Yiyong looked normal.
"What's wrong with your mind?!"
It was Uchiha Enhuo who made an angry noise. He pinched Giyuu's hand in panic and examined it carefully.
As for Naruto, he was directly petrified on the spot, seemingly not even breathing.
You know, the skin on his hands was just diluted with water in the mop bucket.
But Yiyong fell in his hands...
"Can it be proven now?"
Yiyong looked at the fat woman coldly, who was so scared that she clung to the door of her shop.
"Tell me, what's going on?!"
Uchiha Yanhuo asked angrily, "This smell and color are obviously the blood of the giant millipede in the Death Forest. It is extremely corrosive to humans. The Earth Kingdom uses special things like this to torture female prisoners. Why do you want to go there?"
Add something like this to detergent?!”
Some genin and chuunin in the crowd of onlookers also nodded, obviously recognizing Uchiha Flame's judgment.
This is the basic knowledge to learn in ninja school.
"I, I didn't do such a thing!"
The fat woman was completely confused, "I didn't. When I took this thing -"
Her voice stopped suddenly, as if she had remembered something important, and she dramatically pressed her lips as thick as a sausage. Her originally panicked look gradually became calmer.
【She is hiding it.】
Yiyong's brows moved.
【Hide it for others.】
"Take it?"
Uchiha Yanhuo raised his eyebrows, "What did you take? You mean, this bottle has passed through other people's hands?"
The fat woman stared at him closely, then pointed at Giyu and Naruto as if she had grasped a life-saving straw and said: "It must be them. They added this thing in order to blackmail me, and then came to frame me!"
"Blackmailing you? Will he blackmail you?"
Uchiha Flame laughed angrily.
Our Uchiha clan leader’s family will be short of money?
This guy always buys a whole salmon. Will he be short of money?
His eyes suddenly turned red, and the three magatama stones rotated strangely and slowly, "If you don't tell the truth, do you want me to help you?"
This time, the proprietress who didn't understand the principle of Sharingan was really frightened, and all kinds of legends about the police force flooded into her mind.
But there seemed to be a fire in her heart and she shouted back: "Your surname is Uchiha, and his surname is Uchiha. Of course you are speaking for him! Look, everyone, this is Konoha Guard."
The team actually helped these two children to pour dirty water on me!"
However, this time, no one helped her anymore.
Uchiha Yanhuo was about to cast an illusion directly on her, but he heard an old voice saying: "Uchiha Yanhuo, wait a moment."
An old man in a white robe and two masked ninjas walked in from the crowd.
"Three generations."
"It's the Third Hokage!"
"Hokage-sama."
Sandai did not smile, but nodded in response to their greetings, and then walked to Giyu and Naruto.
But the two children ignored him. Uchiha Enhuo just bowed in a formal manner, focusing entirely on the two Anbu.
One of them, you can tell just by looking at his hair, is the Sharingan Kakashi.
The third generation looked at the fat woman.
When she saw the third generation, the landlady not only did not show a saved look in her eyes, but her face became even paler.
"I remember...you are Zhengyi's daughter, right?"
He had a nostalgic tone.
"……yes."
"I heard that you have a son named Yan Zheng?"
"Yes." The fat woman buried her face and automatically added, "He, he went to ninja school."
"Did Naruto go there after shopping this morning?"
"yes……"
There is no need to hide it, if you are Hokage-sama, you can find out everything.
"Every morning, Yan Zheng and his friends gather at your house before going to school, right?"
"right……"
"Did they see Naruto this morning?"
The fat lady was speechless for a long time, and finally replied exhaustedly: "Yes."
"I heard that their two-day course is to learn to identify dangerous creatures around Konoha."
Sarutobi Hiruzen stroked his beard, "But in the laboratory of the Ninja School, a giant millipede just disappeared yesterday. If I guessed correctly, you asked Hikomasa to bring you the bottle of detergent this morning, and then
You will hand it to Naruto, right?"
The fat woman seemed to have been punched hard by Tsunade, and slammed the store door behind her, and then cried and said: "Sandaime-sama, there must be a misunderstanding here, Hikomasa has always been very timid.
, it must be his friends..."
"No need to say it."
Sandai waved his hand and interrupted, "The village will find out what happens next. Regardless of whether Yanzheng is the mastermind or not, he and his friends are suspected of harming fellow villagers. I cannot agree with such a child that he can
Become a ninja!"
Kakashi, who came with the Third Generation, was not surprised. He even had a rough guess.
It's not like an adult can do such a reckless thing.
In secret, Kakashi divided the people of Konoha's understanding of Naruto's identity into four levels.
The first level is the jounin who participated in the jounin conference that year after the Nine-Tails Rebellion.
Most of them had fought alongside the Fourth Hokage and knew Naruto's identity.
In addition, they know what a tailed beast is and what a jinchuriki is. They also know under what circumstances a jinchuriki may go berserk and other abnormal situations.
So whenever these people found Naruto in the village, they would take the initiative to avoid him.
In addition to necessary safety considerations, it is more about avoiding suspicion.
The second level is responsible for monitoring and protecting Naruto's ANBU ninjas.
They knew the significance and danger of tailed beasts and jinchuriki, but except for a few insiders such as Kakashi, most of them didn't know Naruto's identity.
The third level is the end of the Nine-Tails Rebellion. The chuunin, genin and civilians have nowhere to avenge their hatred and have nowhere to vent their anger.
They didn't know the meaning of confidential words like tailed beast and jinchūriki. They only knew that such a huge disaster had happened, but no enemy was responsible for it, and there was no outlet for the huge sadness and anger.
But after the Third Hokage allowed Danzo to spread rumors, they immediately sensitively connected the description in the rumors with Naruto's unique appearance.
At that time, Naruto had just started living alone.
With insufficient knowledge, they gathered together under the instigation of thoughtful people and grasped at straws, believing that Naruto was the reincarnation of the demon fox that destroyed the village and their kin-killing enemy. Therefore, they hated Naruto the most and used him as an outlet for their anger.
mouth.
Although this statement has never been confirmed by the village's senior officials, it has never been refuted. The only requirement of the village for these people is that they are absolutely not allowed to say the two forbidden words "Kyuubi" and "Demon Fox" in front of Naruto.
, but not everyone can do it.
As for this group of people and the last level, they didn't know what would happen if they completely angered Naruto.
The fourth floor, the last floor, is filled with children from the village.
The Jonin children were told not to get too close to Naruto and had almost no chance of getting along with him.
Children from chuunin, genin and ordinary families were told that Naruto was a naturally evil monster who deliberately wanted to do bad things and was an uneducated orphan. He was allowed to survive because of the tolerance of the village's higher-ups.
Instilled in this discriminatory spirit, these children will naturally isolate Naruto and regard him as a public enemy and an object of contempt.
The ones who put additives in Naruto's detergent were the last batch of ignorant and cruel (stupid and bad?) children who thought they were doing good things for the village.
anyway.
The Third Hokage's words were like a hammer striking a bell, hitting the heart of the fat woman, but it also surprised Uchiha Enhuo. He thought that the Third Hokage was here to make peace, or to simply stand by the civilians who were "bullied" by Uchiha.
aside...
"Sandaime-sama...please forgive that child..."
The fat woman knelt down and prayed sincerely: "Yan Zheng, he has always wanted to become a ninja, just like his grandfather..."
"It's not me who should forgive him, it's the two children who were hurt because of his actions."
The third generation tilted his head towards Giyu and Naruto.
"I don't need it." Yiyong's cold voice came.
"..."
Everyone automatically ignored this sentence.
The third generation turned around, smiled at the two children, and then glanced at the crowd of people watching.
"Everyone, I have said many times that all residents of Konoha Village are trustworthy relatives and partners, and there is no reason to hate or treat each other differently.
"I hope everyone can take a lesson from what happened today and restrain their families. It's time to eat now, so I won't waste everyone's time..."
"etc."
Yiyong spoke up and stopped the crowd who were about to leave.
He lifted the plastic bag of milk with his unburned hand and looked around.
"Who sold this milk at full price to Naruto?"
He wanted to settle this matter while this perfunctory Hokage was here.
What the three generations just said seemed to say something, but it sounded like they didn't say anything at all.
He absolutely couldn't let these people go like this. He had to make sure that Naruto could buy normal food in the future, so as to solve his worries.
"Yes, I'm sorry, it's me."
A middle-aged man walked out quickly, "Sorry, I must have read the wrong date this morning. I'll change it right away..."
"Will I get it wrong again in the future?"
Yiyong tilted his head, causing the boss's expression to freeze. He glanced at the third generation with the old god next to him, "No, it won't happen anymore."
"Hokage-sama."
Yiyong raised his head and said, "If Naruto buys expired food that is about to go bad in the future, can I take him to you directly?"
"Of course." Sandai smiled and nodded.
He promised in a loud voice, obviously not just for Yiyong to hear.
"But we'll talk about these things later. Let me take you and Naruto to Konoha Hospital first, so that no scars will be left."
"What about the medical expenses?"
"Yes, I'm sorry, of course it's me."
The fat woman wiped her face and stood up, "Also, there is additional compensation. I will pay it all one by one. Please, please forgive that ignorant child..."
"Okay, the village will send someone to handle the next thing, including the compensation figure, we will also calculate it."
Sarutobi Hiruzen then looked at Uchiha Flame, "Tell Fugaku and I will ensure that Giyuu gets the best treatment. Also, be less impulsive and you will have no problem becoming a Jonin."
"……yes."
Uchiha Yanhuo lowered his head, this farewell ceremony was quite standard.
…
Naruto didn't speak a word all the way to Konoha Hospital, and Sandai didn't say anything to him. He just asked Giyuu if he was in pain, how he was getting along with his family recently, and other polite words.
After bringing the two of them into the ward, he smiled and said: "Grandpa will find the best doctor here for you. You can stay here honestly for now, okay?"
He had already heard that Naruto was almost affected by the Nine-Tails chakra, so he had to find a doctor he could trust and arrange for him to examine Naruto's body carefully, which would take some time.
After he left, Naruto turned his head like a puppet on wind up and said dryly again: "Giyu, I'm sorry."
If it weren't for his weird body...
"It's fine."
When Yiyong poured the thing down, he gathered chakra in his hand. Coupled with the precise control of the world, the liquid did not damage the blood vessels on the back of his hand, but it looked more serious.
"You, why would you do this for me?"
Naruto pressed his knees uneasily. Although he was still wrapped in gauze, his hands were completely fine.
He had wanted to ask this question for a long time, but last time he was interrupted by the sudden arrival of Grandpa Hokage.
"Obviously we just met..."
"Naruto."
Yiyong looked at those blue eyes very seriously and replied: "Your health is really important to me."
This is true in both senses.
"Woo..."
Unable to hold back his tears any longer, Naruto suddenly threw himself into Giyuu's arms and cried loudly as if he was born anew, causing everyone on the entire floor to subconsciously stop their movements.
[Yiyong, I, I won’t be afraid of those people anymore...]
【I will find psychological support just like you said.】
【I will never be swayed by the malice of these people again!】
Maybe he can't do it yet, but the idea has taken root.
"Naruto……"
Yiyong looked at his full head of yellow hair and asked thoughtfully: "Do you want to have a brother?"
[Purgatory, I remember, likes to take care of people more than Shisui, right? 】
Naruto's crying suddenly became intermittent, he raised his head suddenly and nodded heavily.
"think."
Yiyong nodded: "I understand."
At this point, in order to realize Naruto's wish to have another older brother, Giyuu's motivation to resurrect Purgatory Anjuro has further increased.
But what he didn't know was that the brother Naruto mentioned and the brother he thought were not the same person from the beginning.